Quotes on Class

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.

...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.